YAET : What would you do?

[Drakkon]

So i purchased a service manual for my truck on Ebay thinking I'd get an actual CD because i paid about $30 for it. What i got was a burned CD without even a label on it in a slimline case with a printed paper insert. obviously fraudulent. So filed a paypal claim, got my money back, the guy said destroy the cd and dont ship it back (which i did because it was worthless anyways). I posted a negative ebay for him though because he was continuing to sell manuals and I'm sure hes trying to dupe other people too.
Now a day after i posted the negative he posts a neg on me saying i never paid (which isnt true i have the paypal records to show otherwise) and files a "squaretrade" thing against me. I tell squaretrade not willing to negotiate, he sold me a fake product, and dont want to remove the negative. Now he emails me telling me since he gave my money back he doesnt deserve the neg. So do i let squaretrade remove our evals or do i leave him with the blemish? it looks like hes had this happen in the past (no negs but 3 "mutual withdrawls")

Sold fraud software
Got money back
posted neg
now seller wants to remove neg

 

[blurredvision]

I think that a negative on his account stating the software was fradulant is more important for everyone else than one negative on your account. IMO, try your best to get the negative taken from your account, but you'd be doing a bigger service for others who may purchase from this asshat.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I think that a negative on his account stating the software was fradulant is more important for everyone else than one negative on your account. IMO, try your best to get the negative taken from your account, but you'd be doing a bigger service for others who may purchase from this asshat.

QFT. People aren't stupid, they'll underdstand WHY you received your neg. Besides, one neg isn't going to kill your rating.

 

[myusername]

Although, let's face it, for $5 it would have been a bargain. Sure you destroyed it. Did you delete the copy from your hard drive too?

Whether you leave a neg or withdraw, you should leave a comment indicating it was a copy. I wouldn't use the word fraud, unless it was represented as original by the seller.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: myusername
Although, let's face it, for $5 it would have been a bargain. Sure you destroyed it. Did you delete the copy from your hard drive too?

no it was literally WORTHLESS....it was a PDF of the manual in the glovebox as far as i could tell

 

[theMan]

he deserves a negative. its for other peoples safety so they dont get screwed by him again.

 

[myusername]

Oh, thought it was a FSM.

 

[mcvickj]

Leave the negative feedback. If he really wants it removed he can appeal to eBay about it. Not that he deserves it being removed.

 

[SupaDupaCheez]

Remember: Going the squaretrade route only removes the NEGATIVE. It does NOT remove the COMMENT. So, if you don't buy/sell a lot on ebay to receive a lot of feedback, that COMMENT will still show on the first page of feedbacks. You will need to receive at LEAST 25 more feedbacks to take that comment off the first page (most ebay buyers never venture past the first page of feedback anyway).

I wouldn't bother doing squaretrade with the idiot. Let it stick.

What you can do is go to THIS page and read your options. Make sure you bookmark this page for future use as it has some pretty good links and info for when this happens again (and it will happen again).

You can REPLY to his feedback left for you to explain the situation a little more. Moreso, you can reply to HIS reply on HIS feedback (if he does reply) and you will have the last 'say'.

One thing to remember though, if you make a reply to feedback on YOUR account, the other person will ALWAYS be able to have the 'last say'.

Hope this wasn't too confusing.

PS: Ebay will NOT remove the the feedback comment he left for you unless you get a court order or the guy used profanity or physical threats in the feedback.

 

[Shelly21]

Screw him to the full extent of the law!

 

[KarenMarie]

Leave neg. Post a calm and factual reply to his neg and move on with the eBay side of it.

As far as the seller... if there is someplace to report him, do it. I do not know who that would be, because i dont know about auto manuals. I know that I once got a fake COACH handbag and went straight to the COACH legal dept.

:| to the seller. Please dont make it any easier for him to do this to someone else.

 

[kd2777]

I got a retaliation negative one time and now I don't ever leave feedback until the other person does first. It sucks that that is the way the system works, but it is about all we have.

One time a seller was a complete tool, but I knew if I gave him the negative he deserved I would just get it back, so I started 5 or 6 fake eBay accounts and bought everything he put up on eBay for a few days and left him immediate negatives after the auction. With hindsight it wasn't the most mature thing to do but I enjoyed it.

kd

 

[JDrake]

"Settle" and remove neg for both